Impact of Stress on Health
Impact of Stress on Health
Introduction
It is a known fact to everyone that there is a strong connection between stress and physical and mental health of a person. This fact has also been supported and acknowledge by the results and finding for the survey Stress in America as respondents and participant of the research have showed high levels of stress leading towards their dependence upon unhealthy means and behaviors to combat the effects. Stress has also been suggested to affect the physical health of the individuals. Thus both physical and mental health has been suggested to get affected by stress. The situation has been found to be more serious and adverse in case of adults who are 50 and above or those who are obese or suffering with depression. The main purpose of this reports is to describe the meaning and different types of stress and how it affect the defensive mechanism and overall health of the people.
Discussion
Stress has been described as feeling of being over worked or loaded, tense, worried or tight. It is a physiological response of an organism to the stimulus (Goldstein & Mcewen, 2002; Mcewen, 2002). Everybody experiences this state at sometime in their lives. At times it makes people work hard, under pressure in order to meet the deadlines or perform well. But increased frequency of such stressful situations may lead toward the ability of an individual to lead a normal and productive life. Some common types of stress are Acute Stress that are brief and relate to a specific situation, deadline or performance challenges. Trauma can also lead towards this stress. Episodic acute stress on the other hand is repetitive occurring in series such as those face by child in school. Chronic stress relates to continuous demands, pressures with no hope which affects health and relationships in an adverse manner (The Australian Psychological Society Limited; 2012).
Stress is directly related to the endocrine system and nervous system as any event of
Introduction
It is a known fact to everyone that there is a strong connection between stress and physical and mental health of a person. This fact has also been supported and acknowledge by the results and finding for the survey Stress in America as respondents and participant of the research have showed high levels of stress leading towards their dependence upon unhealthy means and behaviors to combat the effects. Stress has also been suggested to affect the physical health of the individuals. Thus both physical and mental health has been suggested to get affected by stress. The situation has been found to be more serious and adverse in case of adults who are 50 and above or those who are obese or suffering with depression. The main purpose of this reports is to describe the meaning and different types of stress and how it affect the defensive mechanism and overall health of the people.
Discussion
Stress has been described as feeling of being over worked or loaded, tense, worried or tight. It is a physiological response of an organism to the stimulus (Goldstein & Mcewen, 2002; Mcewen, 2002). Everybody experiences this state at sometime in their lives. At times it makes people work hard, under pressure in order to meet the deadlines or perform well. But increased frequency of such stressful situations may lead toward the ability of an individual to lead a normal and productive life. Some common types of stress are Acute Stress that are brief and relate to a specific situation, deadline or performance challenges. Trauma can also lead towards this stress. Episodic acute stress on the other hand is repetitive occurring in series such as those face by child in school. Chronic stress relates to continuous demands, pressures with no hope which affects health and relationships in an adverse manner (The Australian Psychological Society Limited; 2012).
Stress is directly related to the endocrine system and nervous system as any event of
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